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  • Naramake Elementary School
  • Norwalk, CT
  • Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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One aspect of STEM learning is to have the opportunity to model and research what happens in the real world. A fly becomes trapped in a web - why? How does the web trap the spider? How could we build a model to show how this happens? Students will use the Chromebooks to research real world phenomena prior to creating a model, a science experiment or a physics illustration. Students building a spaghetti/marshmallow tower can research actual buildings to help them create their standing tower. Working with a partner enables my students to share the excitement of their research. While making a scientific model is something we do often, adding the research to show why our models are correct and illustrate a real-world phenomena deepens my students' understanding of the real world. Why do spacesuits work? Will we be able to colonize Mars? How could we create a habitat to enable humans to live and work on Mars? are some of the questions my students are interested in.

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One aspect of STEM learning is to have the opportunity to model and research what happens in the real world. A fly becomes trapped in a web - why? How does the web trap the spider? How could we build a model to show how this happens? Students will use the Chromebooks to research real world phenomena prior to creating a model, a science experiment or a physics illustration. Students building a spaghetti/marshmallow tower can research actual buildings to help them create their standing tower. Working with a partner enables my students to share the excitement of their research. While making a scientific model is something we do often, adding the research to show why our models are correct and illustrate a real-world phenomena deepens my students' understanding of the real world. Why do spacesuits work? Will we be able to colonize Mars? How could we create a habitat to enable humans to live and work on Mars? are some of the questions my students are interested in.

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